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VOL. XXIII. NO. 60.
WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 19, 1917.
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Wilson Conferred Today With
Members of His Cabinet
Over Sub. Situation
SIGNS POINT TO
SOME NEW ACTION
Congress May Be Called Soon
er Than Expected, In Order
Tto Meet the Situation
Arming Ships Going Steadi
ly On American Warships
Needed to Protect Home
Waters.
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(Associated-Press.)
i Washington, March 19. After
conferring with the President this f i
ft afternoon. Secretary Daniels sum-
Onioned Admiral Bensoi. chief of
- cneraticns. and Captain Oliver, 4
'chief of intelligence
There ap- ;
$ peare
d to be ground for the be-
lK-f that steps were being taieen v
4 io have the navy take steps to
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Washington, March 19 New and ag-1
gresive action to protect American
shipping against German submarines
appears certain as a result of yester
day's sinking of three unarmed mer
chantmen with possible loss of Am
erican lives.
Calling of Congress in extra session
before April 16, loomed as the strong
est probability, although President
Wilson was understood to have other
courses under consideration.
With American ships already being
armed, the most probable step would
bean active-campaign to clear subma
rines out of the shipping lanes.
There appears to be no plan to have
the United States enter the war in
the sense that the European nations
have entered it.
The fact that some American ships
are on the other side of the ocean un
armed is a factor 4n-the situation and
against submarines, as large warships
are ineffective, the problem for
the government is to get smaller sub
marine chasers. Most of the Am
erican fleet is needed at home to
guard against operations of German
submarines in American waters.
There seemed to be no doubt that
st?Ps to supplement arming of Am
prican ships would be taken and the
only question was whether the Presi-'If-nt
would take such steps on his own
responsibility or wait for Congress
,0 grant specific authority.
Xo comment was made at the White
House today beyond the statement
t;!at the President was getting reports
a'i'J considering the question thorough
ly. President Wilson made another per
ma! visit to the state, war and navy
tt-re outward infli,,t5nna that some
rtsMt of the latest destruction of
ST- German
J" Wilson confer;! wltt.
er 'retary Daniels, it was understood,
aiout the , of $10 000.000 in
bnf'.s for hurrying naval construe
t'on because of national emergency.
Thf-ro
was no official announcement,
hi
nv, ver, to confirm this.
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ONLY
ONE BOAT MISSING.
T-. ...
T 'am saying that all but one
M r,. - m
"oat frnm- vVio atpamfr CAtV Of f
M-mphis had been reported safe
that it "was expected the
reported
expected
: "ussmg boat in which the Cap-
tain tr.r,v , ,,11 yp !!
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BIGGEST MILITARY
MOVE SINGE THE
Germans In Full Retreat On a I
Front of About Hundred
Mil
es
ALLIES FOLLOWING
UP THE TEUTONS
BATTLE OF
IARNE
mmt&ggg?
i iiur Place In rersia Kus-
irtg
sians Advance On Dis
organized Turks
The greatest military movement on '
the Franco-Belgian front since the
Battle of the Marne is still in full
swing with the Germans in retreat
on a front of nearly 100 miles. ,
French territory approximately 620
Th,, retirement of Field Marshal
" u,"" i-. ..o oioo l,a :
aiready virtually resulted in the :
straigntening out oi uie i.muus ai-
ras and Noyon salients and apparent-
ly the retrograde movement is still in
progress. j
Should the expectations of many i
military observers who have been
watching the operation be realized,
the retreat will not stop short of the i
powerfully fortified line running from
Lille to Laon, through the strong de
fensive position of Cambri and St
Quentin.
Today's German official statement ' the submarine appeared. The survi
speaks of the movement with a cer- j vors say the weather was squally and
tam note oi iiuu.hl y as 11. i l wcic cu-
tirely completed. The previous re
tirement in the Sonime region, how
ever, was marked by such a state
ment made in the midst of its prog
ress. The broad scope of the opera
tion is succinctly indicated in the
Berlin announcement that the ground
evacuated was a strip of land betwen
the Arras district ana tne Ais,ne, .
which takes in virtually the entire
front, from a short distance soutn oi
t :n v Cniconnc-T .arm rlist.rict.
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diiu xioi-wi
sharply following up "gfjjhls ship's papers found today in bis
firmans, employment of cavalry na- J.f. 4.j. u .v,t,
- - - t too-, i I CUlt UIl ill aytctiii a uuot vvao
ing enabled the pursuers to keep m. ked up n m lgth Boat gnows
close touch. I signs hasty abandonment, discarded
Movements of importance are also J overcoats, etc., with white silk hand
in progress in other fields. In Persia kerchief at masthead as flag, showing
both thJ Russian columns advancing boat not abandoned until after day
to hem in the disorganized Turks re- ( break It is barely possible that all
treating Ibefore the. British up the Ti-, nine of Doat were taken by German
gris froijn Bagdad, have made fresh submarine, but more probably by
progress. The column from Sakkiz some friendly craft having no wire
has pushed almost to the Mesopota- j legg
manian border from Baneh, while the, That . tne report received from
Hamadan army to the south had ad-. across tne Atlantic today.
vanced twenty miles soutnwebt oil
Kermanshah, and occupied Haruna
Berlin nomfZn TiltnrAav
TS
1XUS&
the s9ut,n.easte.rf'
the airsnips reiurumB
Fifteen men are still missing from
the crew of the American steamer
Vigilancia, sunk by a German subma
rine without warning, it is . declared.
Germans In Full Retreat.
Paris, March 19. The German line
at last accounts was in full retreat
over a section which represents al-
1 . v. tho -vet ct front from
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ss r"TT TMU H THI t.li. rl. JU A a
wn;r troons advancing along a
7iQ frr,t have cantured im-
'forty miw many wmmflea1
1Pprtant towns and
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small COSt to tneuiaei vcd.
i. . .1
Tn the Lassigny regiuu wcdi. xWJ
the Gemm a to have made
a wfiak defense since uie rruuu
are
WAR
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I -if Washington, " March 19. Sec
J retary Lansing was called to the -x-I
-a- White House by the President
j early today and they discussed -X-X-
the policy of the government. -
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I M I L UI Unl I III II
of vltf v Memphis
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(By dissociated PressT)
London, March 19. Captain Borum
and the eight men who formed , the
complement of his boat are among
tUnr, f a-
m -f Mmnh Trr
of the e,gM sailors are Americans.
The boat was picked up at 10 o'clock
honed that its occupants were rescued
ST UNKNOWN
nihor Vvr n atrnl nr hV VPSPl Car.'01 arieponi, SUULU Ol INUyUU
rying no wireless and landed at some
uui-ui-iue-wny pun
The survivors say that the captain's
boat became separated from the
others about 1 o'clock on Sunday
morning.
The City of Memphis left Cardiff
with 58 persons, of whom 29 were
Americans. The survivors who have
tnus far reported to the American
consulate number 33. The steamer
carried no guns. She was equipped
with wireless but did not use it after
mci t; wo,o x umij "
Fifteen men from the American
steamer Vigilancia, sunk by a German
submarine, are now listed as missing.
Tne American embassy learns that
the submarine fired two torpedoes at
the Vigilancia. The first missed by
a considerable distance. It was fol-
lowed immediately by the second, '
which fOUnd the mark
;
No News Yet of Borun.
Washington, March 19. "No news
inatitnlti Rnrnm fitv ..f Mfiltl-
-
i FARM LOAN INTEREST
WILL BE 5 PER CENT.
(By Associated Press )
Washington, March 19 The Farm
Loan Board announced today tftat the
interest rate on all loans made to
farmers throughout the country by
Federal Land Banks would be 5 per
cent- v
A rate of 4 1-2 per cent, on bonds
to be issued by the land banks also
was officially announced.
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(By Associated Press
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London, Marcn iy.--A , ,y
-destroyer and a merchant vessel
was fi Hiuaseu 111 ucimuu
1 j A V mon rin.
u roCo-ntc thp Ad. 45-
announced today.
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'DAWN OF NEW DAY'
HAmED AS TREATY
SIGNED TODAY
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England to congratulate
RUSSIAN DUMA. j
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v (By Associated Press) j
London. March 19. Premier !
4j Lloyd George today announced
in the House of, Commons that 4 I
4 on Thursday he would move a
J a
motion of congratulation to the
4J Russian Duma.
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French Will Free Two Im portant
Departments From
German Grip
(By The Associated Prss.)
Paris, March 19. Tomorrow or the
Hay after two entire French depart
ments, the Oise and: Aisne, will be
liberated from the German invader,
according to reports from the fighting
front. The total territory now re
gained is roughly calculated at 620
square miles.
Th naturofL
wtlich theGelmanf
e - ground over
retreated was al
most all against them and they were
hurried by cavalry which is now be
ing used in force for the first time
since the battle of the Marne.
At a few points where nature of
fered an opportunity for resistance
the Germans tried to make a stand
and fell back only after considerable
fighting. The principal of these
points were the forest ofOurscamp
7t.g Ff.?!- wM
There was also a sharp struggle for
the important Crony Plateau, across
the river from Soissons, the capture
of which is believed likelv bv mili- i
tary critics to be followed by highly'
favorable developments. In this sec-1
tion the French have approximately
restored the line which existed before
the battle of Crouy, fought in the
Spring of 1915 by General Berthelot,
who is now in Rumania. The battle
was lost by the French, owing to a
sudden rise in the River Aisne. The
situation in the whole section wras at
one moment compromised, but was
saved by General Nivelle, who wras
given credit for the French being able
to retain the bridgehead at Soissons.
HOME RULE NEW
POLICY FOR FINLAND
(By Associated Press.)
London, March 19. Home rule for
Finland is the nolicv of the new Rus
sian government, according to a Reu-
T SOON 6 E
ter correspondent writing from ram- tee wmcn uas yut uejuuu ycir.u
merfors, Finland's greatest manufac- ture the possibility of a Nation-wide
turing city. The correspondent says railroad strike. The railroads have
that tTTT Finnish diet will be conven-i met the full demand of the Adamson
ed shortly and asked to establish a
government possessing the full confi
dence of the people.
General Zein, governor of Finland,-!
under the old regime, has been sent
to Petrograd as a prisoner. People
throughout the country are jubilant
over the change and the situation
everywhere is peaceful.
MAIL BAGS RIFLED
ON CUNARD LINER
(By Associated Press.)
New York, March 19. Twenty-six
mail bags addressed' to Washington
and the British embassy at Washing
ton were found to have been rifled on
board the Cunard liner, Saxonia, up
on her arrival here today.
DUTCH SHIP SENT
OUT CALL FOR HELP
(By Associated Press.")
New York, March 19. The Dutch
steamship Sagua, a freighter, on her
way here from Cuba, sent a wireless
message ashore from a point off the
New Jersey coast, saying she was in
no danger of sinking as a result of
her collision early today with an un
identified bark.
The Sagua reported she was pro
ceeding under her own steam but
asked vessels which had gone to her
aid to follow her in case their help
should be needed. After the colli
sion the Sagua' crew except the cap
tain and four; men, took to the boats
but later returned. '
ulid
By
Rnrl f Railrnarl War MarVpH
When Employes and Em-
ployers Signed
DATDinTTCM U17I n
A Kll-F 1 lOlVl HLLU
SWAY; FORCED ISSUE
m i r h C-.i.
!iicaus ui iccxl oy&Lcms vuii-
ceded Eight-Hour Day On
Account of International
Situation Great Work of
President Wilson's Media
tors. (By Associated Press.)
New York, March 19. The railroad
strike has been averted. Yielding to
the appeal of -President Wilson and
facing the probability of this coun
try's entrance into the war, the rail
roads early today granted the de
mands of the four employes' brother
hoods for a basic eisht-hour day.
The decision is regarded as a com-
The President's mediators were not
successful in their mission until after
more than fifty hours of conference.
Secretary Lane said to Elisha Lee,
spokesman for the railroads:
"This is a magnificent thing that
you have done for your country. It
will go down in history as one of the
greatest things you ever did."
The number of workmen profiting
by this increase will be more than
300,000"- . . j .
The- Crisis resultlhg ffomhV srSK
ing of three American ships by Ger
man submarines was the prime fac
tor in clearing the situation and re
storing the country to normal condi
tions insofar as its transportation fa
cilities were concerned.
The railroad managers had been
dismissed temporarily by the media
tors, who made no secret of the fact
that they viewed the outlook with
pessimism. Secretary Lane a short
j time before wprd came that the man
agers had yielded issued a statement
that the conferences would be re-
sumed today, but intimated that he
was none too hopetui oi a settlement.
The railroad managers and the
brotherhood chiefs had been -told of
the seriousness of the international
situation, but tne warning naa appar
ently failon on deaf ears. It wal evi
dent that the strike undoubtedly
would become effective
1UC U1CU7IU"J wu,Uu.v.vm
with the railroad managers, however,
with the result that they are said to
have voted unanimously to yield to
the demands of the brotherhoods "in
order that neither at home nor abroad
should there be fear or hope that the
efficient operation of the railroads of
the country will be hampered or im
paired." The mediation negotiations and
their result are summed up in the fol
lowing statement issued by the com
mittee from the Council of National
Defense:
"We desire to express our appreci
ation of the large and patriotic .ac-
tion of the railway managers commit
eight-hour law. This concession was
secured as the culmination of two
days and nights of negotiation.
"Our first effort was to secure a
postponement of the strike which was
fixed for Saturday night. This post
ponement was secured by presenting
to the railway managers a memoran -
dum agreement drafted by the broth
erhoods which, with some particular
ity, expressed the provisions of the
Adamson law. We asked the rail
ways to agree that if the Adamson
law was held to be constitutional that
this construction and application
would be given to it. The railways
agreed to this at a joint session be
tween the brotherhood chiefs and the
managers. And with much difficulty
the chiefs stayed the strike, an act
that" was vital to the success of our
efforts at further mediation.
"We next sought some adjustment
that would be effective should the
law be held to be unconstitutional.
In this regard many propositions
were made to both sides until the
railroads expressed a willingness to
place the whole matter in the hands
of the committee. This action pro
ceeded, as the letter of the railway
managers states, from a desire to
demonstrate to the country that the
railroads would not allow their own
conception of railroad policy to stand
in the way of the fullest use of the
roads at a time of severe National
strain. The v committee considered
thp. matter and decided that in-view
of the action of Congress in passing
the Adamson law and the necessity
for immediate action that it was best
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High
AMHSON
IfflilJ TOIAY
BY
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AIRSHIP ATTACK ON LON
DON. X- (By Associated Press.)
Berlin, March 19 (Via Lon-
X- don). An attack on London by
-X- Zeppelins ..lasting one and one- -X-X-
half hours has been made, the -X-
war office announced today. -X-X-
Bombs were dropped successful- -X--X-
ly and the airships returned -X-X-
safely.
m. m. x & & -v. -X- & -X- -X- -X- -X-
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Reports to State Department
erican Vessels
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, March 19, The fol
lowing dispatch undated from Consul
Frost, at Queenstown, reached the
State Department very late last night
WORD
FROM
CONSUL
and was givers out today: t The immediate, temporary wage in-"Thirty-three
survivors City ' of crease8 won by the railroad employes
Memphis do not include Captain L. ! affect 400 000 trainmen, as pf Janu-
B. Borum and four other Americans
and four non-Americans, but indica
tions are that they are safe on board
some merchant or admiralty vessel
which has no wireless. Captain's
boat did not separate from others un
til 1 a. m. today and was picked up
empty at 10 a. m., weather meanwhile
remaining moderate.
"Vessel cleared Cardiff 16th in bal
last with 58 persons including 29 Am
ax o.ec mt-v, ..u,
. . fired warning shot from three
miles on starboard quarter, vessel was
stopped, submarine approaching to
one mile, fired once more, fragments
striking vessel, ship then only being
able to read submarine's signal "to
abandon ship. Instantly Captain re
plied by long blast of whistle signify
ing comprehension, then gave four
short blasts, signal to crew to take
to boats immediately which was done
in five minutes, about 4:15. No in
juries. Submarine then came up, hail
ed Captain's boat, fired eight shots,
sinking vessel about 4:40 p. m., ap
parent time. Location of Captain's
boat at present unknown. Weather
heavy, southwest swell, moderate
southwest breeze, skyvsqually, weath
er improved during night. First of
ficer's boat picked up by admirality
ship 3:45 a. m. today. Chief engi
neer's boat, 6:30 a. m. today by same
vessel. Landed Queenstown 4:30 p.
m., today without accident. City of
Memphis carried wireless, but did not
use it.
'Survivors here include Jut. Officer
1 Charles G. Laird, Chief Enginet Fred
Bevill, Third Officer M. J. Dierlam,
Third Engineer W. M. Thompson, P.
J. Donohue and T. J. Welch, wireless
operators, and eight other Americans,
ten Spaniards, two Danes and one
each Swede, Russian and Chilean.
"City of Memphis was stopped by
submarine February 4, off Scilly Is
lands. Failure to lse v ireiess tnis
time was due to experience of former
occasion inducing belief that ship
would probably be passed if wireless
not started. Survivors were assem
bled Queenstown pendiiig instructions
from owners, Ocean Steamship Com
pany, New York."
PISTOL DUEL TODAY
WITH PAIR BURGLARS
: i
(By Associated Press.)
Memphis, Tenn., March 19. In a
pistol duel between two burglars and
J. M. Johnson, a night watchman in
the Southern part of the city, early
today, one of the robbers was killed
and the other wounded.
A kit of burglar tools and a box of
cartridges were found where the
wounded man had thrown them in his
flight.
s The dead burglar has not been Iden
tified. .
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Court Stood Five to Foutj
Validity of the Eight
Hour Act
JUDGE HOOK'S
DECISION REVERSED
Act Held Constitutional In All
Respects Chief Justice
White Announced the De
cision for the Majority o
the Anbunal
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, March 19. The Adam
son eight-hour railroad law was iheld
constitutional and valid in all respects
today by the Supreme Court. The
decision makes eight hours the stan
dard of a day's work and wages for
men in operation of trains and legal
izes the wage increases which went
l into tentative effect on its passage.
LTn w , to 4 Jus.
bench and later Justice McReynolda
announced his.
Federal Judge Hook's ruling, in the
Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad
test case enjoining enforcement of
the Adamson act and holding it "un
constitutional, null and void," was re-
versed.
ary 1, and are estimated to total be
tween 40,000,000 and $50,000,000.
Justice McKehna concurred in the
majority opinion, but on slightly dif
ferent grounds. Justice Day read his
own dissenting opinion and Justice
Pitney delivered the other dissenting
opinion in which Justice Van DeVan-
ter joined.
Justices Pitney and Van DeVantec
in their joint dissenting opinion, held
that the law should be held unconsti-
i ,u,u UDV"luOD VUU,,;DD
although confessedly not in posses
sion of information necessary for in
telligent and just treatment of the
controversy, arbitraily imposed upon'
the railroads the entire and enormous
cost of an experimental increase in
wages."
Justice Day, in his dissenting opin
ion, said the legislation amounted to
deprivation of the railroads' property
without due process of. law.
In concurring in the majority opin
ion, Justice McKenna differed in that
he believed the law "an hour's of
service" statute, and only secondarily
a wage-fixing law and thus within
power of Congress.
Justice McReynolds delivered a sep
arate opinion saying Congress did not
have power -to pass the law, but that
he now bows to the majority's puling. -
Announcing the opinion the Chief
Justice reviewed the negotiations
leading to enactment of the law. -He
did" not read from a prepared
opinion, giving it apparently . from
memory. He told of the President's
efforts to avert the strike last Sep
tember. "He suggested arbitration. The
employers accepted and the employes
refused," said the Chief Justice. "He
then suggested an eight-hour day .
standard. The employers rejected that
and the employes accepted."
How the President went before Con
gress was then recited.
"Congress passed the law that is be-
J fore us and the carriers refused to
recognize it," he continued. He said
the agreement to expedite the case
was "very laudable." .
Justice White said that law is both
an eight-hour act and, also a wage
fixing statute. He said it "strips the
parties of power contracts," as to
wages. He said the eight-hour pro
vision is the paramount leature. ,
Regarding whether the law was an
hours of labor or wage fixing law, the
Chief Justice said It wa9 both, r He
said the question of fixing hours of
labor by Congress was out of the case
as unquestioned. A
He cited the "hours of Service Act"
as an instance of "hours of labor" leg
islation by Congress. He said trans
portation is of both private and public,
interest. ( -V ,
"The dividing line is so marked
(Continued, on Page. Eight)
that government will not' destroy the
(Continued on. Page Eight) .
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